Thanks Smith for answering the enquiries he communicated via Mr Dawson. Does not recollect ever meeting Smith, and certainly not at Sir Thomas Cullum's, but if he has it was at Mrs Howorth's or Mrs Lane's at Acton, [Middlesex].

Asks Smith's advice on his proposal to publish an "introduction to the study of Botany particularly calculated for the use of Ladies"; outlines its intended contents and format.